Re:Tilt: dev environment as code
by sigmonsays on Thursday May 01, 2025 @04:13PM
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tilt might be nice but I do not develop in containers or kubernetes. Tilt to me looks like more glue on top to make updating kube fast. It might make sense for some but it seems pointless to me.
If I can run external dependencies in docker locally, I can setup my app to run entirely from my laptop. That's all docker-compose does, just runs dev deps like DBs and other services i'm not editing code of.
As far as code reloading goes, there is a million tools to do that already. Go already compiles locally much faster than seconds.
All that being said, why are people choosing to develop in containers/kubernetes?
Maybe apps that need to be more tightly integrated with kube would benefit from this?
If I can run external dependencies in docker locally, I can setup my app to run entirely from my laptop. That's all docker-compose does, just runs dev deps like DBs and other services i'm not editing code of.
As far as code reloading goes, there is a million tools to do that already. Go already compiles locally much faster than seconds.
All that being said, why are people choosing to develop in containers/kubernetes?
Maybe apps that need to be more tightly integrated with kube would benefit from this?